Self-Driving Vehicles

A new legislative framework for self-driving vehicles is needed and should hold them to the same standard as a "competent and careful" human driver, the Faculty of Advocates has said. The Faculty has published its response to the joint consultation paper on automated vehicles launched by the Scottis

The Scottish Law Commission and the Law Commission of England and Wales have today announced landmark proposals that will seek to ensure the safety of self-driving vehicles via a comprehensive new legal framework. Hailed as “leading the way on the regulation of this technology” by transp